Quotes of Psychiatric - somelinesforyou

“ Psychiatric expert testimony: mendacity masquerading as medicine. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ Addiction, obesity, starvation are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body. ”

- Thomas Szasz

“ Instead of being fired, perhaps he should be studied and examined, much as one might probe the victim of a once-rare psychiatric disorder that has become rampant. Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed… ”

- Mort Kondracke

“ Psychoanalysis has changed American psychiatry from a diagnostic to a therapeutic science, not because so many patients are cured by the psychoanalytic technique, but because of the new understanding of psychiatric patients it has given us and the new and different concepts of illness and health. ”

- Karl A. Menninger
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